The Yellow Fairy Book, How Six Men Travelled Through the Wide World, part 2, sentence 83
On the threshold he was greeted by a servant with the news that his wife had just given birth to a boy.
Who acts: servant, boy · What happens: greet, give · To what, where: miller, threshold, wife
This is a sentence of «The Yellow Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, How Six Men Travelled Through the Wide World, part 2. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (servant, boy), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.
Parsed by Mova, not checked by a teacher. This tree is Mova's own parse (the en model, on the CPU, when the site is built); it may be wrong.
The tree
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | On | on | ADP | _ | 3 threshold | case |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 threshold | det |
| 3 | threshold | threshold | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 greeted | obl |
| 4 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 6 greeted | nsubj:pass |
| 5 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 6 greeted | aux:pass |
| 6 | greeted | greet | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 7 | by | by | ADP | _ | 9 servant | case |
| 8 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 9 servant | det |
| 9 | servant | servant | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 greeted | obl |
| 10 | with | with | ADP | _ | 12 news | case |
| 11 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 12 news | det |
| 12 | news | news | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 greeted | obl |
| 13 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 18 given | mark |
| 14 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 15 wife | nmod:poss |
| 15 | wife | wife | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 given | nsubj:pass |
| 16 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 18 given | aux |
| 17 | just | just | ADV | _ | 18 given | advmod |
| 18 | given | give | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 12 news | advcl |
| 19 | birth | birth | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 given | obj |
| 20 | to | to | ADP | _ | 22 boy | case |
| 21 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 22 boy | det |
| 22 | boy | boy | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 given | obl:agent |
| 23 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 6 greeted | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | greet speech: greet | past · passive | a servant | miller | the threshold | with the news | vn judgment-33.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent subject=Theme | ||
| 2 | give | past · perfect · passive | a boy | miller's wife | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: agent=Agent subject=Recipient birth=Theme |
One row per clause the reader finds. «not said here»: a role filled from the clause above. «roles by»: a VerbNet class and frame when one fits the verb, else the reader's rules on the tree.
Text: «The Yellow Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Project Gutenberg book 640 (public domain in the USA). Tree: Mova's own parse, Elamur Cosmic License. Frames: Mova's frames reader (prag), the chapter read in order.
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